08.03.08

Running High

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:33 pm by Victor

Does running make you high? This was the first thing my Western Civ professor once asked me while we were reviewing material for his class. He has asked if I was an athlete at Carolina because I was wearing the team issues gear around campus one day. I explained to him that I was a long distance runner.

This conversation has been coming to mind lately because I’m getting fit. I feel great on most of my runs and when I finish a run at a sub 5 minute mile during a tempo and I’m barely breathing hard….I’m high. I finished my tempo this week so pumped up that I continued by doing strides, quick feet, hurdle drills, 25 minutes of core, pull ups, and of course push ups. We get our running high when we feel or see the results in personal bests or just great workouts.  The point of this post is that I wanted to share my running high with everyone and hope that everyone is feeling the same way as we come closer to Aug 20! I hope that everyone is having a great summer and is looking forward to running fast times!

I’m currently visiting home! It is the first time in 8 months that I’ve had the chance to see my family and it feels great. It is currently 57 degrees outside with thick fog on the Mendocino Coast. I’m about to take off on a run and wearing long sleeves. Such a drastic difference from Chapel Hill. Take care everyone!

Run Hard!

Victor

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    • 2 Comments »

    1. joan said,

      August 5, 2008 at 10:34 am

      Victor,
      Believe it or not, after nearly 30 years of running, I still get a runner’s high even after a 5 mile easy run. For me, it’s not so much the thrill of being fit … or fast :( … anymore, but the joy and serenity and “it’s good to be alive” feeling I get running in nature. I no longer enjoy running on the roads - like you marathoners - and would probably quit running were it not for my beloved trails and occasional track. But, oh how I love a run in the woods!!
      (unless, of course, I get attacked by an owl which is not so good)

    2. Tyler said,

      August 7, 2008 at 3:27 pm

      I second Joan’s point - running on trails / in the woods is such an amazing, liberating feeling.. the chance to just get away from all the construction, traffic, chaos of our every day lives - and for just a moment get back to the simplicity of nature.. feeling fit at the end of a nice hard run is of course a different kind of ‘high’, and I think it’s the combination of these two feelings that keeps me lacing up my shoes every day

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